Re: jpg, tiff, and gifs are not displayed when visiting a file

Uwe> Although jpg, tiff and giff support are compiled in, when Uwe> visiting such a file, I just see strange symbols. Uwe> what is the problem? The method the author chose to automatically start the mode was inappropriate and interfered with other modes. Worse, once you started it it was impossible to remove. Somebody disabled it early in 21.2. Add something like ("\\.\\(jpe?g\\|gif\\|png\\|tiff?\\)$" . image-mode) to 'auto-mode-alist should work. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py